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International Andrei Ershov Memorial Conference on Perspectives of System Informatics

PSI 2017: Perspectives of System Informatics pp 163–178Cite as

A Framework for Dynamical Construction of Software Components

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A component model enabling to construct new software components from existing ones dynamically, at runtime, without their bytecodes generation is presented with supporting it software framework. The framework is implemented using JavaBeans component model, but is aimed to eliminate its drawback – the inability to create user-defined components without bytecodes generation. To construct user-defined component dynamically, a composed prototype object is built using predefined (hardcoded and/or composed) component instances; that prototype object can provide functionality required and can be transformed at runtime into a new component (instantiable type) whose instances are able to provide the same functionality, but more efficiently. The prototype object is composed using meta-components – the framework provided components to produce user-defined components dynamically.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Components used as elements of a composition are composing components; a component having been built from composing components is composed component.

  2. 2.

    Java platform can deal with specific “synthetic” classes defined dynamically by JVM itself for specific purposes.

  3. 3.

    We can use bytecode generation as a kind of just in time compilation, similar to JIT support in JVM [13], as an optimization technique. In that case, component production technology will be the same as component composition technology, producing components with “higher degree of integration” on the fly. But, first, we need to have “source information”.

  4. 4.

    We omit package names from type names for short.

  5. 5.

    The context tree is different from, e.g. java.awt.Container/Component tree that does not support reuse (sharing) of the component instances.

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  1. National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

    Efim Grinkrug

  2. Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

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  2. The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

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Grinkrug, E. (2018). A Framework for Dynamical Construction of Software Components. In: Petrenko, A., Voronkov, A. (eds) Perspectives of System Informatics. PSI 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10742. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74313-4_13

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